Cenoscopy

Keyword: Cenoscopy


Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/05/2016
Quote from "The Logic Notebook"

“Philosophy” has 2 principal meanings

  1. The cream of the science, – synthetic or positive philosophy
  2. Cenoscopy, the study of the experience already...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/05/2015
Quote from "L [R]"

Beside [the] idioscopic sciences, there are others which analyze and reason from phenomena that are perfectly familiar to all mankind. Because these are founded on common...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/05/2015
Quote from "Monist [R]"

The intermediate department [of heuretic science], called cenoscopy, does not attempt to discover new phenomena but only analyzes those truths that are known and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/05/2015
Quote from "The Logic Notebook"

The business of cenoscopy is to build up as well as we can conceptions of the omne of being and of non-being and of its principal parts.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

Two meanings of the term ‘philosophy’ call for our particular notice. The two meanings agree in making philosophical knowledge positive, that is in making it a knowledge of things real,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

Among the theoretical sciences [of discovery], I distinguish three classes, all resting upon observation, but being observational in very different senses. [—]

Class II is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "Review of Wilhelm Wundt's Principles of Physiological Psychology"

The sort of science that is founded upon the common experience of all men was recognized by Jeremy Bentham under the name of cenoscopy, in opposition to...